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To define significant driving situations involving acceleration, establish meaningful measures of such accelerations, and develop test procedures that will measure a vehicle’s maximum performance capabilities during those driving situations.

To define a test procedure that when conducted will provide a repeatable measure of a vehicle's maximum acceleration performance.

This SAE Recommended Practice establishes uniform procedures for testing electric battery-powered vehicles which are capable of being operated on public and private roads. It is the intent of this document to provide standard tests which will allow various performance characteristics of electric vehicles to be cross-compared on a common basis in specifications, technical papers, and engineering discussions. The tests concern attributes of the total vehicle system rather than those of its subsystems and components. Tests of components such as batteries are the subject of separate procedures. The road tests specified in this document are recommended for use whenever possible particularly to establish vehicle performance specifications. The dynamometer procedures are included primarily to facilitate development testing. Section 3 provides definitions of terminology used in this document.